Tom Wolfe Quotes

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type.

I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.

My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.

I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

Whatever they do, criminals and non-criminals act in particular ways. Some writers, for instance, use computers, others pen and paper. Some write in the morning, some at night. Each writer has a distinct style, with variations in grammar, sentence structure, and voice.